TV series
Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Episode 1
A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.
Directed by Mike RohlWritten by James CrockerGuest stars Tom Arnold, Catherine Mary Stewart, Gerard Plunkett, Kimberley Warnat, Giacomo Baessato, Alf Humphreys, Beverley Elliott, Michael Daingerfield
Episode 2
A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.
Directed by Mario AzzopardiWritten by James CrockerGuest stars Michael Rooker, Tanya Allen, Laurie Murdoch, Gillian Barber, David Cubitt, Patrick McManus, Myfanwy Meilen, Karina Carreck
Episode 3
A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.
Directed by Mario AzzopardiWritten by Mark SternGuest stars Jeremy Sisto, Brad Rowe, Holly Ferguson, Michelle Beaudoin, Nick Mancuso, Michael Eklund, Jeremy Van der Driesen
Episode 4
A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.
Directed by Ken GirottiGuest stars Heather Donahue, Erich Anderson, Ocean Hellman, Cheryl Wilson, Ian Robison, Elizabeth McLaughlin, William MacDonald, G. Patrick Currie
Episode 5
The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.
Directed by Jimmy KaufmanWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Brian Arnold, Zachary Ansley, Jay Brazeau, Jere Burns, Tom Butler, Erica Carroll, Chilton Crane, Anthony De Longis
Episode 6
An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.
Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by John SchulianGuest stars Rachel Ticotin, Laura Harris, Dax Belanger, Mark Brandon, Biski Gugushe, Derek Morrison, Michael P. Northey, Rick Poltaruk
Episode 7
A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.
Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Sherilyn Fenn, Peter Outerbridge, Garwin Sanford, Kwesi Ameyaw, Michele Bogdanow, Derek Peakman, John Treleaven, Lindsay Jameson
Episode 8
One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a highly advanced means of long distance travel by 'jumping' through space.
Directed by Jorge MontesiWritten by Mark SternGuest stars Enrico Colantoni, Linnea Sharples, David James Lewis, Peter Grier, Scott McNeil
Episode 9
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.
Directed by Jorge Montesi, Peter DeLuiseWritten by Pen Densham, Alan BrennertGuest stars Johnathon Schaech, Michelle Harrison, Alex Diakun, Tom Heaton, P. Lynn Johnson, Arnie Walters, Dee Jay Jackson, Ralph Alderman
Episode 10
A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.
Directed by Steve AnkerWritten by Michael SloanGuest stars Joanna Going, Geraint Wyn Davies, William B. Davis, Haig Sutherland, Samantha Grant, Khaira Ledeyo, Johannah Newmarch, Shawn Reis
Episode 11
An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.
Directed by Jorge MontesiWritten by Alan BrennertGuest stars Irene Bedard, Greg Evigan, Monique Mojica, Helene Joy, Cameron Daddo
Episode 12
A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.
Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Jeffrey HirschfieldGuest stars Jeremy London, Rebecca Reichert, Jud Tylor, Kavan Smith, Ken Tremblett, James Crescenzo, Christina Jastrzembska
Episode 13
A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.
Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Danny McBrideGuest stars Colin Ferguson, Aaron Douglas, Dina Meyer, Steve Archer, Noah Beggs, Darren Birch, Ben Gehrke, Oga Nwobosi
Episode 14
A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.
Directed by Brad TurnerGuest stars Patrick McKenna, Jamie Luner, John Pyper-Ferguson, Artine Tony Browne, Britt Irvin, Marcel Maillard, Terry David Mulligan, Yvonne Myers
Episode 15
A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.
Directed by James HeadWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Chris William Martin, Jessica Amlee, Paul Popowich, Alex Diakun, Kristin Lehman, Ingrid Kavelaars, Ryan Robbins, David Pauls
Episode 16
An alien makes an offer to five high school students.
Directed by Mario AzzopardiWritten by James CrockerGuest stars Kandyse McClure, Meghan Ory, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jesse Moss, Jesse Cadotte, Don Kline, Eric Schneider
Episode 17
A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of being in an attack where several humans were killed.
Directed by Mike RohlGuest stars Dennis Haysbert, Michasha Armstrong, Anne Marie DeLuise, Robert Freeman, Carrie Genzel, Scott Hylands, Michael Ironside, Shaun Johnston
Episode 18
A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.
Directed by Matthew HastingsGuest stars Shawn Ashmore, Noel Fisher, P.J. Prinsloo, John Wesley Shipp, Crystal Bublé, Stephen Chang, Roger Cross, Sarah Deakins
Episode 19
A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artificial intelligence that one computer whiz feels that he must destroy or risk world domination.
Guest stars David Lovgren, Kerr Smith, Anthony Harrison, Harry Rob Bruner, Jim Byrnes, Erica Carroll, Jonathan Cherry, Allan Gray
Episode 20
An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.
Directed by Steve AnkerWritten by Michael SloanGuest stars Katharine Isabelle, Nora Dunn, Andrew Airlie, Gracie P. Aylward, Rhonda Dent, Kathleen Duborg, Chris Gibson, Christine Kennedy
Episode 21
In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization by destructive humans must be stopped.
Directed by Robert HabrosWritten by Grady Hall, Steve AspisGuest stars Zack Ward, Robert Duncan McNeill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevan Ohtsji, Peter Outerbridge, Talia Ranger, Laara Sadiq, Stephen Spender
Episode 22
A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.
Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Mark SternGuest stars Jason Gedrick, Dean Marshall, Glynis Davies, Leanne Adachi, Brent Karl Clackson, Kim Coates, Lochlyn Munro
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